| theprof00 said: First of all can you please leave your emotions at the door. I'm not furiously googling anything. I'm trying to help you see how the tech exists. Obviously the video is different from the kinect one. It's a thousand times better. I'm trying to give you a sense of scope here. Kinect will not be in military medical...possibly education on a small scale. It's consumer tech. Medical and military require utmost reliability and precision, cost is not the issue. Automated turrets already exist. It's for the sake of precision that they are not used, and IR is not the identifyer of choice for that. Sadly, Kinect is not going to be used in turrets regardless of how hilarious it might be. PS: "simply because it came from your hated company MS." C'mon man, you were so close to understanding... If you look at it objectively, you know I'm right. It's not an MS thing, it's not a Kinect thing, it's just not a very good tech. Do NOT attribute real criticism to hate, that only serves to hide the truth. |
Wow, I didn't know that when I was talking about kinect, you thought I was talking about the stupid little toy. I thought that you could figure that I was talking about the software, which is really what kinect is. Of course they're not going to use it for those applications, it would be a different form factor to meet the needs of that. That was assumed to be a given. Did you also think they're were going to hook these up to a bunch of 360s?
Ok, I'll be clearer now. The "software inside kinect" is the real meat and potatoes. Said "software inside kinect" makes all kinds of cool things possible, and when you couple it to things like projectors you get surface stuff that could be useful in...say guided surgery (which would work a lot better without having to wear a cumbersome glove) or teleconferenced boardrooms. Mix the "software inside kinect" with military designs, and you get cool things too that we probably won't hear about for a while. Mix the "software inside kinect" with depth/mic sensors in every room of a house, and you can have a computer do all kinds of neat things like home automation, appliance interaction, etc.
Like I said, for general consumers the approach Primesense and MS is using is great, cause it is cheap and easily scalable. For more specialized applications, I'm sure the devices and software will be more robust, but a lot of the reliability comes from large scale consumer use and feedback. Yes, everyone using kinect 1.0 will be a beta tester (that's why it's in games and not a gun), but ver 2.0 and 3.0 of the software will certainly be a step up. You didn't think they would stay at ver 1.0 forever, did you?
